Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Since I was 13 or 14, I've always felt older than I actually am.

My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.